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B. WOOD.

CORSET FASTENING.

Patented Oct. 3, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT THCEQ BLANOHE WOOD, or SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

CORSET-FASTENING.

sPEeIFmAirIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,354, dated October a, 1882,

Application filed May 3, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, BLANOHE W001), 0t Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oorset-Fastenings, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

The nature of this invention consists essentially of a corset-front having in lieu of the usual steel stays pliable whalebone strips, and provided on the edge of one of its sections with loops orlacings formed of cord or equivalent flexible material and on the other section with fixed fastening devices adapted to engage with said loops or lacings, all as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims, said construction and combination of parts being designed to afford greater convenience to the wearer and great facility for attaching and detaching the corset.

In the annexed drawings, Figures 1 and 2 represent respectivelythe exterior and interior surfaces of a corset-front constructed in accordance with my invention 5 and Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view, showing the bones.

A and B denote the two front sections, by which the corset is fastened on the body of the wearer. Said sections are usually provided with vertical stays, of steel or equivalent stiff material, and the corset-fastenings, which are also usually formed of metal, are attached to the aforesaid stays. The result is that'the front of the corset is exceedingly stiff, and thus to many persons very inconvenient or unfit to wear. To overcome this defect I deprive the sections A and B of the usual steel stays and use in their stead pliable whalebone strips 8 8, two on each of the said corset-sections, inserted between the two thicknesses of fabric of which the corset is formed. Said bones s s are secured by rows of stitches along the edges thereof, and are placed a proper distance apart (No model.)

to allow a series of eyelets, a, to be attached to the fabric between said two boness s. These eyelets are arranged in comparatively closelyplaced pairs, through which protrude loops 1) 1), form ed of a continuous cord, 1), run alternately in and out through the successive eyelets and rigidly secured at its extremities. The loops 1) b are to acertain extent maintainedin their respective lengths by means of threads 6 c, stitched on the back of the fabric and drawn across the cord b intermediately between the loops b b,as shown in Fig. 20f the drawings, the tension of said stitches preventing more or less the cord Z) from sliding endwise. To the section B, I secure buttons 0 or hooks, or other suitable fixed fastening devices adapted to engage with the loops 1) 1), before described, said buttons being fastened to the fabric between the two bones s 8.

Having described my invention,what I claim 1s- 1. In combination with the section B, provided with buttonsc c,or their described equivalents, the section A, provided with eyelets a a, the cord 1), extended successively through the eyelets and formed into loops 1) b, and the tension-stitches c 6, applied across the cord at the inner face of the section A, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a corset, the front sections, A and B, provided each with the bones s s, the section A having the eyelets a abetween the said bones and the loops 1) b, and the section B having the buttons 0 0 between the said bones, substantially as shown and set forth.

In testimony whereof I have. hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 20th day of April, 1882.

BLANOHE WOOD.

Witnesses:

O. H. DUELL, WM. 0. RAYMOND. 

